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Fostering Campus-Wide Dialogue and Student-Centered Learning through Film Festivals and Media Projects: Engaging Chinese Environmental Issues beyond the Asian Studies Classroom by Blumenfield, Tami

“…Based on a Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment  Pilot-Year Project at Furman University This article discusses how film festivals and other…”
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Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size by Shenk, Mary K, Morse, Anne, Mattison, Siobhán M, Sear, Rebecca, Alam, Nurul, Raqib, Rubhana, Kumar, Anjan, Haque, Farjana, Blumenfield, Tami, Shaver, John, Sosis, Richard, Wander, Katherine

“…Malnutrition among women of reproductive age is a significant public health concern in low- and middle-income countries. Of particular concern are…”
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Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride: Politics of Identity and Belonging among Mosuo, Yi, and Han in Southwest China by Sum, Chun-Yi, Blumenfield, Tami, Shenk, Mary K., Mattison, Siobhán M.

“…How do non-Han populations in China navigate the paradoxical expectations to become “proper” Chinese citizens, like the majority Han, while retaining pride in…”
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Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response by Scelza, Brooke A., Prall, Sean P., Blumenfield, Tami, Crittenden, Alyssa N., Gurven, Michael, Kline, Michelle, Koster, Jeremy, Kushnick, Geoff, Mattison, Siobhán M., Pillsworth, Elizabeth, Shenk, Mary K., Starkweather, Kathrine, Stieglitz, Jonathan, Sum, Chun-Yi, Yamaguchi, Kyoko, McElreath, Richard

“…Long-lasting, romantic partnerships are a universal feature of human societies, but almost as ubiquitous is the risk of instability when one partner strays…”
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Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China by Mattison, Siobhán M., MacLaren, Neil, Sum, Chun-Yi, Mattison, Peter M., Liu, Ruizhe, Shenk, Mary K., Blumenfield, Tami, Su, Mingjie, Li, Hui, Wander, Katherine

“…Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies,…”
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Correction: Betel quid use is associated with anemia among both men and women in Matlab, Bangladesh by Sznajder, Kristin K, Shenk, Mary K, Alam, Nurul, Raqib, Rubhana, Kumar, Anjan, Haque, Farjana, Blumenfield, Tami, Mattison, Siobhán M, Wander, Katherine

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001677.]…”
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Labor migration is associated with lower rates of underweight and higher rates of obesity among left-behind wives in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study by Sznajder, Kristin K, Wander, Katherine, Mattison, Siobhan, Medina-Romero, Elizabeth, Alam, Nurul, Raqib, Rubhana, Kumar, Anjan, Haque, Farjana, Blumenfield, Tami, Shenk, Mary K

“…Among Bangladeshi men, international labor migration has increased ten-fold since 1990 and rural to urban labor migration rates have steadily increased. Labor…”
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Betel quid use is associated with anemia among both men and women in Matlab, Bangladesh by Sznajder, Kristin K, Shenk, Mary K, Alam, Nurul, Raqib, Rubhana, Kumar, Anjan, Haque, Farjana, Blumenfield, Tami, Mattison, Siobhán M, Wander, Katherine

“…Anemia accounts for 8.8% of total disability burden worldwide. Betel quid use among pregnant women has been found to increase anemia risk. Betel quid is…”
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Gender Differences in Social Networks Based on Prevailing Kinship Norms in the Mosuo of China by Mattison, Siobhán M., MacLaren, Neil G., Liu, Ruizhe, Reynolds, Adam Z., Baca, Gabrielle D., Mattison, Peter M., Zhang, Meng, Sum, Chun-Yi, Shenk, Mary K., Blumenfield, Tami, von Rueden, Christopher, Wander, Katherine

“…Although cooperative social networks are considered key to human evolution, emphasis has usually been placed on the functions of men’s cooperative networks…”
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Notes from the Editors by McCarthy, Erin, Trivedi, Lisa, Blumenfield, Tami

“…It gives us great pleasure to publish our first issue of ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal of Asian Studies for the Liberal Arts as a part of the Open Library of…”
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China Remix Dorian Carli‐Jones and Melissa Lefkowitz, dirs. 29 minutes. English and Chinese with English subtitles. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2015 by Blumenfield, Tami

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Fostering Campus-Wide Dialogue and Student-Centered Learning through Film Festivals and Media Projects: Engaging Chinese Environmental Issues beyond the Asian Studies Classroom; Based on a Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment Pilot-Year Project at Furman University by Blumenfield, Tami

“…This article discusses how film festivals and other media projects can be used to engage students in hands-on learning while also immersing campus communities…”
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The Mosuo Sisters by Blumenfield, Tami

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The Mosuo Sisters: Directed by Marlo Poras, produced by Marlo Poras and Yu Ying Wu Chou, 2013, 80 minutes, color. Distributed by Women Make Movies, 115 W. 29th Street, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10001, www.wmm.com by Blumenfield, Tami

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Does gender structure social networks across domains of cooperation? An exploration of gendered networks among matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo by Mattison, Siobhán M, MacLaren, Neil G, Sum, Chun-Yi, Shenk, Mary K, Blumenfield, Tami, Wander, Katherine

“…Cooperative networks are essential features of human society. Evolutionary theory hypothesizes that networks are used differently by men and women, yet the…”
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Gender disparities in material and educational resources differ by kinship system by Mattison, Siobhán M, Mattison, Peter M, Beheim, Bret A, Liu, Ruizhe, Blumenfield, Tami, Sum, Chun-Yi, Shenk, Mary K, Seabright, Edmond, Alami, Sarah

“…Contemporary inequality exists at an unprecedented scale. Social scientists have emphasized the role played by material wealth in driving its escalation…”
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Paternal Investment and the Positive Effects of Fathers among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China by Mattison, Siobhán M., Scelza, Brooke, Blumenfield, Tami

“…The matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China have been described as the only human society that lacks fathers and husbands. These claims are based on ethnographic…”
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Resilience in Mountainous Southwest China: Adopting a Socio-Ecological Approach to Community Change by Blumenfield, Tami

“…Blumenfield Tami. Resilience in Mountainous Southwest China: Adopting a Socio-Ecological Approach to Community Change. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 23,…”
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The Case for Community Self-Governance on Access and Benefit Sharing of Digital Sequence Information by Adler Miserendino, Rebecca A, Meyer, Rachel Sarah, Zimkus, Breda M, Bates, John, Silvestri, Luciana, Taylor, Crispin, Blumenfield, Tami, Srigyan, Megha, Pandey, Jyotsna L

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Matriliny reverses gender disparities in inflammation and hypertension among the Mosuo of China by Reynolds, Adam Z., Wander, Katherine, Sum, Chun-Yi, Su, Mingjie, Thompson, Melissa Emery, Hooper, Paul L., Li, Hui, Shenk, Mary K., Starkweather, Kathrine E., Blumenfield, Tami, Mattison, Siobhán M.

“…Women experience higher morbidity than men, despite living longer. This is often attributed to biological differences between the sexes; however, the majority…”
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